Chamberlain College of Nursing Miramar- Review

[lillt]

I am a student currently enrolled in the BSN program at Chamberlain. There have been changes along the way that new prospective students should be aware of prior to enrolling.

I want to start off by saying this program is unorganized. Twice I was assigned to start a new clinical rotation at a hospital. Staff was not aware that students were scheduled to be there. They indicated a clinical coordinator never provided our paperwork.

Additionally, Chamberlain now requires that you spend $85 for fingerprints which was not disclosed at registration over a year ago.

Now Chamberlain requires you to use ebooks for $80/each every eight weeks. I prefer real text books. I do not want to read an ebook. This is required and they are making us pay this. This should be optional. Some semesters they require two to three extra books that may be duplicated or that you do not even need.

Every eight weeks you are required to take a medication calculation test to be able to move on to the next semester. I have known students who did not pass and there is nothing they can do about it. On the other hand, I have known students who did not pass but the teacher gave them preferential treatment so they could move forward. There is a lack of preparation for this difficult medication calculation test. When around half the class or more fails the first test you know there is a problem and it is not with the students.

Chamberlain said we could only wear all white sweaters on campus. All of us went to buy all white sweaters. A few months later they changed it to you have to wear all white lab coat.

We are told not to show up late to class or you will be locked out. There are certain students who are always late but it is okay for some and not for others.

If for some reason you need to drop or withdraw from one class and you are taking more than one class that session, in order for you to get a refund class you need to drop all classes you are taking that session. Otherwise, they will keep your money for the entire session. This happened to several of my classmates.

Please be aware and know what you are getting into before applying to this school. My comments are from several students and me because we want potential students to be aware.

[LittleMissMuppet]

I would also like to add that our January session just started. We registered in early December and had our schedule already figured out. On our first day of class which was a Monday our professor told us we had to be there on Thursday and Friday the same week. The class explained that our schedule shows we have to be there Thursday and Friday of the following week, surely there was a mistake, the professor told us she'll look into it and let us know. Well, when we got to class on Wednesday she told us we had to be there Thursday and Friday of BOTH weeks, even though that wasn't on our schedule. So Thursday we sat in a classroom from 9-4 and did the assignments we could do at home. On Friday we watched movies from 9-4.

The following week we we're suppose to have CPI training, we'll guess what, we didn't get to do that and went over power points from 9-4. Our Dean was suppose to come and talk to our class on Friday at 2:30, he called the professor at 2:00 and said he couldn't make it because he had a meeting, I find it hard to believe he found out about this meeting 30 minutes before he was to speak to our class.

We were told that our clinical professor would contact us with information about our clinical. We had not heard from the day before we we're suppose to meet for SIM lab, I sent a text message to our professor and she text me back with our clinical professors phone number. I text our clinical professor at 5:00pm on Monday to ask what time we needed to be on campus Tuesday (the next day) I wast told that there was a change and I should receive an email in a few minutes. The email stated that we no longer were going to meet on campus to do SIM, we are now going to clinicals and need to be there at 7am. If I had not text her, who knows when we would've found out and there is not enough time to make other arrangements for my family. We aren't even give 24 hours notice before these kinds of changes are made!!!! This school has no regard for its students and their lives outside of CCN.

I am really disappointed with this school and honestly, I would not recommend it to anyone that has a job, a family or children.